schöpfen

== German == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʃœpfən/, [ˈʃœ.p͡fɱ̍], [-p͡f(ə)n], [-p͡ɸm̩], [-p͡ɸ(ə)n] Hyphenation: schöp‧fen === Etymology 1 === From Middle High German schepfen, from Old High German skephen, from Proto-West Germanic *skappjan, from Proto-Germanic *skapjaną, an originally weak verb. Likely denominal from *skapą, whence regional German Schaff (“wooden container or rack: tub, barrel; cupboard”). The rounding of the vowel was caused by the adjacent consonants (cf. zwölf and various other words with Middle High German /e/). ==== Verb ==== schöpfen (weak, third-person singular present schöpft, past tense schöpfte, past participle geschöpft, auxiliary haben) (usually transitive) to scoop up, to draw (water, sand etc.) with a bucket (figurative) to draw (air), to inhale deeply Synonym: holen (figurative) to draw, gain (strength, energy) Synonyms: tanken, gewinnen (figurative) to take, gain, derive (something) from (in this sense there is a certain semantic overlap with the verb for “create” in etymology 2) ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle High German schepfen, from Old High German skephen, from Proto-West Germanic *skappjan, from Proto-Germanic *skapjaną, an originally strong verb, which is continued in schaffen, schuf, geschaffen, the form schaffen being backformed from the past participle. Already in Old High German, weak forms also developed through confusion with etymology 1 above (just as vice versa, though less often, strong forms appear in the sense “to scoop”). ==== Verb ==== schöpfen (weak, third-person singular present schöpft, past tense schöpfte, past participle geschöpft, auxiliary haben) archaic form of schaffen (“to create”) ===== Usage notes ===== The stem schöpf- remains common in the derivatives below. Based on these, schöpfen (“to create”) still sees occasional use in higher register, but is on the whole now archaic. ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Derived terms ===== === Further reading === “schöpfen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “schöpfen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “schöpfen” in Duden online “schöpfen” in OpenThesaurus.de